Scraps of Biography (1883)

(Volume 10) Included in this book of the FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES are the short biographies of John Tanner, Daniel Tyler, and Newel Knight taken from their personal histories and journals. Like other books of this series, the true accounts are related to "increase the faith of the youth of the Church." From the Preface: "There is a gradually increasing interest among the young of this people for reading and study. It is now the ambition of nearly every son and daughter of the Saints to become well educated. Parents, also, are more deeply interested in the intellectual growth of the youth. Thus we are gradually ascending to a higher plane, and our influence is being felt in a more extended sphere. "The desire, however, to place matter in the hands of the young for reading and study, should not cause parents to be less careful in the selection of books. Truth expands the mind and quickens the understanding, while fiction dulls the perceptions and impairs the memory." 128 pages